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It's crazy that a 60 ton metal airplane can just fly (lemmy.world)
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I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I've seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just.... Soars... Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf... It's crazy. With how much these things weigh, it's insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we're flying now. Like wow... Dude crazy.

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[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

You think that's crazy? The ship that blocked the Suez Canal, the Ever Given, has a ship displacement (how much water is displaced when it sits in the ocean) of 265,000 Tons.

That's 240 million kilograms.

And that shit just floats on fucking water maaaaan...

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Since when 1000kg is not equal to one tonne?

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

There are tons of tons, believe it or not.

There's the short ton (2000lbs), long ton (2240 lbs), and tonne (1000kgs) which are all measure weight. However there's also the shipping/freight/ocean ton which is a measure of volume (which is also different in the US and UK), and the register ton.

However I did make a mistake. The wikipedia page I was reading said the weight in t and long tons. I made the mistake of assuming they meant short tons - in reality when measuring displacement for a ship, tonnes are used (which is pretty sensible, considering you're displacing water and a liter of water to a kilogram of water have a pretty easy conversion formula formula...)

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I see, the common "Americans will use anything but SI", but in this case it's also the Brits lol

Thanks for explanation

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

This guy tons.

[-] beeple@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 days ago

Ton (imperial) is 2000lb vs tonne (metric)

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Don't get them going about their crazy units!

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